Saturday, August 5, 2017

Mega Man Legacy Collection 2 Trophies Revealed for PS4

Mega Man Legacy Collection 2 includes a total of 21 Trophies on PlayStation 4, revealed by PSN Profiles and Exophase. Unfortunately they're all bronze – no silver, gold or platinum. Moreover, the original individual trophies from Mega Man 9 and Mega Man 10 are missing in action. No "Mr. Perfect" or any of that. Unless there's more Trophies to be revealed, that's a bit of a head-scratcher.

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Just like the first Legacy Collection, what you see is what you get. In both cases, the PSN versions of each game had less trophies than the Xbox versions, so if you wanna see slightly more achievements, wait another day or two for the Xbox version list to see if there's any unique ones there or not.

Just like the previous Legacy Collection, since the games are just emulations, there's no way for the game to detect that certain tasks or requirements have been completed. The emulator only can detect when the game has been completed.

If I recall correctly, the 360 and PS3 emulations of Sonic 1-3 & Knuckles had achievements/trophies for accomplishing certain things in-game, such as getting a certain power-up, obtaining all the Chaos Emeralds, running on water, etc. And those were simply roms running in a fancy emulator, same as here.

Of course, it's not like Trophies or Achievements actually affect the game at all, but it is still disappointing to see them present us with the bare minimum.

Actually, that's not necessarily true. They could simply write scripts in the emulator, the engine or whatever to check if the value(s) at specific adresses where information like number of e-tanks, equipped weapon etc. are equal to XX and stuff like that. I mean, that should technically be possible, they did make a "Beat game with Bass" one for example afterall, not to mention the challenges. They are most likely just being lazy as usual.

I can't really imagine MM9 and 10 are emulated. With how recent they are, it'd probably be easier to just port them and have them run natively. I mean, which version would you even emulate for them for starters.

You & me both! It's basically the same as having some random person make you a challenge list to try. Means nothing & does nothing in game. Just a time waste to make people seem like they get more out of a game.